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COIN'S FINANCIAL SCHOOL.

when he fixed one figure from which all others should be counted. Congress fixed the monetary unit to consist of 371¼ grains of pure silver, and provided for a certain

THE UNIT IN MATHEMATICS.
THE UNIT IN MATHEMATICS.

THE UNIT IN MATHEMATICS.

amount of alloy (baser metals) to be mixed with it to give it greater hardness and durability. This was in 1792, in the days of Washington and Jefferson and our revolutionary forefathers, who had a hatred of England,